Recaps

Guy sold the Wind Daimyo information about Chiyo’s life-restoring technique and Shukaku’s location, and the wealthy ruler paid heavily for both. The daimyo then asked for details about Konoha’s Tailed Beast Rebellion and its current top fighters, leaving Guy suspicious of his intentions.

• Guy explained that Chiyo’s forbidden technique could restore the daimyo’s vitality at the cost of the user’s life, and suggested she could teach it to someone else.
• The daimyo considered using the secret of Sasori’s killing of the Third Kazekage to pressure Chiyo into sharing the technique.
• The daimyo paid Guy thirty million ryo for information that Shukaku was in Amegakure, and Guy warned him against acting against the village.
• The daimyo asked Guy for details about Konoha’s Tailed Beast Rebellion and its current top-tier fighters, making Guy suspect he still had designs on Konoha.

Guy left the Land of Wind after selling information to the daimyo, then spent heavily on desert farming supplies for Spirit Mountain. He set off for home with Sand Wukong and Yota, carrying their belongings and a huge stock of goods.

• The daimyo let Guy leave with over a billion ryo in payment, then ordered the Guard Chief to summon Chiyo to the palace.
• Guy bought medicinal herbs, seeds, soil samples, books, and tools for cultivating desert plants, spending five hundred million ryo.
• Guy returned to the inn, where Katsuyu reported that Sand Wukong and Yota were safe and getting along.
• Guy took Sand Wukong and Yota onto his shoulders and left the Land of Wind with his purchases.
• Guy checked that he had 691 Monk Points and 200 proficiency in the Indestructible Vajra Technique as he headed across the desert toward home.

Might Guy arrived in Amegakure with Sand Wukong and Yota and reunited with Pakura and Yahiko. He warned them that the Land of Water was planning to target Pakura.

• Might Guy entered Amegakure with Sand Wukong and Yota after spending two months caring for the children and training them.
• Pakura met Might Guy and led him to Yahiko at the village's tallest steel tower.
• Might Guy asked about Nagato and Konan and learned they were away on a mission and safe.
• Might Guy sent Sand Wukong and Yota away before telling Yahiko and Pakura that someone planned to go after Pakura.
• Might Guy told Pakura that the threat came from the Land of Water, not the Land of Wind.

Guy warned Yahiko and Pakura that the Land of Water was targeting Tailed Beasts, then proposed a trade alliance between the Hidden Spirit Village and Amegakure. The two agreed to exchange medicine and food for minerals, and Guy showed Pakura Hoichi’s Biwa, which she said she could use.

• Guy told Yahiko and Pakura that a faction controlling the Land of Water sought to collect every Tailed Beast and that Pakura was a target because Shukaku was sealed inside her.
• Guy revealed that he had founded the Hidden Spirit Village and proposed a long-term trade alliance, offering medicine and food in exchange for Amegakure’s minerals.
• Yahiko agreed to provide minerals if Guy could supply medicine and food, and the two shook hands on the alliance.
• Guy showed Pakura Hoichi’s Biwa, and she recognized it, worried that Guy had killed Hoichi, and confirmed that she could use it.

Pakura agreed to teach Guy and Yahiko Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption, a technique for suppressing or extracting a tailed beast. She decided to teach Konan and Nagato as well when they returned, then began instructing Guy and Yahiko.

• Guy asked Pakura to teach him how to suppress a tailed beast, and she agreed.
• Pakura explained that Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption could restrain or extract a tailed beast and offered to teach Yahiko too.
• Pakura told Yahiko he could use the technique if she lost control, and Yahiko promised he would never let that happen.
• Guy suggested Pakura teach Konan and Nagato as well, and Pakura agreed.
• Pakura began teaching Guy and Yahiko the technique's training method and chakra application.

Guy learned Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption from Pakura and negotiated a trade and mutual-support agreement between Hidden Spirit Village and Amegakure. After three days, he left Amegakure for Spirit Mountain, still unsure whether White Zetsu had gone with Nagato and Konan.

• Pakura taught Guy the chakra-chain technique, and Guy formed a chain by the end of his first day of practice.
• Guy used the Biwa to practice on Pakura, prompting Shukaku to go berserk, but Guy subdued him with two senjutsu-powered slaps.
• With Shukaku cooperating, Guy practiced restraining and simulating the extraction of the tailed beast.
• Guy and Yahiko agreed on trade between the Land of Rice Fields and the Land of Rain, including resource exchanges and mutual support against outside enemies.
• Nagato and Konan did not return during Guy's stay, and Guy found no trace of White Zetsu.
• Guy left Amegakure with Sand Wukong and Yota and headed toward Spirit Mountain.

Guy returned to Spirit Mountain with Sand Wukong and Yota, found the settlement greatly expanded, and brought medicinal herb seeds and seedlings for cultivation. He learned that his book Young Guy had earned a billion in royalties, prompting Kakuzu to consider writing a novel of his own.

• Guy arrived at Spirit Mountain and introduced Sand Wukong and Yota as new members of the settlement.
• Moyochi En reported that Kakuzu had recruited wandering ninja across the Land of Rice Fields and that Kagero had welcomed three small ninja clans.
• Chino greeted Guy and led Sand Wukong and Yota away to show them around.
• Guy gave Moyochi En medicinal herb seeds and seedlings, asking him to cultivate them with help from Yota and Sand Wukong.
• Moyochi En told Guy that his book Young Guy had earned one billion in royalties, and Kakuzu considered writing a novel called The Legendary Life of a Centenarian.

Guy gave Spirit Mountain funds and instructions to expand its infrastructure, arranged a permanent trade alliance with the Land of Rain, and ordered a search for the missing Ziro. He then left for Konoha to visit Obito and the people he loved there.

• Guy gave Moyochi En treasure and ordered Spirit Mountain to spend at least one hundred million each month on construction and development.
• Guy told Moyochi En that Hidden Spirit Village and the Land of Rain had agreed to trade supplies for iron ore and coal, and instructed him to finalize the details with their envoys.
• Guy asked Moyochi En to look after Sand Wukong and Yota while he was away.
• Guy learned that Ziro had not arrived after three months and sent a squad to search for the boy along the route from the Land of Rice Fields toward the Land of Wind.
• Guy left Spirit Mountain and headed for Konoha to visit Obito and see Kushina Uzumaki before her expected delivery.

Guy returned to Konoha in disguise and reunited with Shibi, who told him Kurenai was ill from grief after his defection. Shibi brought Kurenai to meet Guy, and she rushed into his arms and kissed him.

• Guy entered Konoha disguised as a merchant and bought turtle jelly from two orphanage children.
• Shibi recognized Guy through a sensing insect and rushed to embrace him.
• Shibi told Guy that Kurenai had grown sick and frail since Guy defected.
• Guy asked Shibi to bring Kurenai to a private room near her home.
• Kurenai saw Guy, threw herself into his arms, and told him not to talk before kissing him.
• Shibi quietly closed the door behind them.

Guy and Kurenai reunited after two years apart, shared a long conversation and affectionate kisses, and Guy held back from going further because he was cultivating the Indestructible Vajra Technique. The chapter ended with Kurenai realizing Shibi had guarded the room for four hours and fearing he had heard them, though he calmly reassured her that no one had approached.

• Guy stopped Kurenai from taking their intimacy further because losing his virginity could ruin his cultivation of the Indestructible Vajra Technique, and Kurenai agreed to keep kissing instead.
• Guy and Kurenai spent hours kissing and discussing their lives during their two years apart, including Guy's travels and Kurenai's worries after he deserted.
• Guy remembered that Shibi was waiting outside, and Kurenai panicked that he might have heard everything during their four-hour visit.
• Shibi told Kurenai that he had kept watch and no one had approached, while privately approving of how much more lively she looked.

Guy, Shibi, and Kurenai shared their first drinks while eating together after Guy returned to Konoha. As they chatted, Shibi began telling Guy about events in the village and the intelligence he had gathered.

• Shibi welcomed Guy and Kurenai with a meal, then brought out two bottles of sake.
• Guy, Shibi, and Kurenai agreed to share a drink, though Guy limited Kurenai to two small servings because she was still weak.
• Shibi and Kurenai choked after gulping down their first cups, and Guy coughed too after trying to show off.
• The three ate and chatted about what had happened in Konoha, including intelligence Shibi had gathered.

Guy learned from Shibi about hidden activity across Konoha, including shadows watching the orphanage and three missing Uchiha Clan members. After confirming Orochimaru had defected, Guy asked Shibi about Asuma, and Shibi began to reveal another piece of intelligence.

• Shibi told Guy and Kurenai about his gathered intelligence and said strange chakra repelled his insects from shadows watching the Konoha Orphanage.
• Kurenai kissed Guy goodbye before leaving, and Guy asked Shibi what he knew about Orochimaru.
• Shibi said he had heard nothing about Orochimaru since his defection, and Guy reflected on the exposed experiments and Orochimaru's possible next move.
• Shibi reported that three Uchiha Clan members had disappeared over the past two years, prompting Guy to consider Danzo and the Land of Lightning as suspects.
• Shibi told Guy he had another piece of intelligence about Asuma, and Guy grew serious.

Guy learned that the Daimyo's Palace was encouraging the Twelve Guardian Ninja to put the daimyo's protection above the Will of Fire, creating a rift that could lead to conflict. He planned to warn Asuma and Chiriku in the capital before continuing his other business in Konoha.

• Shibi told Guy that Asuma had rejected the Daimyo's Palace's efforts to make loyalty to the daimyo outrank the Will of Fire, while Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared to accept the palace's influence.
• Guy recognized that the Twelve Guardian Ninja could split into factions loyal to the daimyo and to Konoha, and wondered whether Hefeng's presence was connected to Kazuma.
• Guy used his disguise technique to reassure Shibi that he could travel safely and said he would visit Asuma and Chiriku in the capital.
• Guy planned to meet Minato Namikaze, wait for Kushina to give birth, visit the Konoha Orphanage and Konoha Medical Hospital, and then see Asuma.

Guy guarded Kushina's delivery in a secluded barrier while Minato Namikaze and Tsunade prepared for an attack that never came. Kushina gave birth to a boy named Menma, and Guy left to visit the Konoha Orphanage.

• Guy reunited with Tsunade, who joined him at the delivery room where Minato Namikaze and Sarutobi Biwako were attending Kushina.
• Minato Namikaze told Guy the delivery information had been leaked and Konoha was on alert, while Guy said he would return to the Konoha Orphanage after the birth.
• Guy and Minato Namikaze discussed a long-term trade relationship between Konoha and the Hidden Spirit Village.
• Kushina gave birth safely to a boy, and Minato Namikaze and Kushina named him Menma.
• The enemy did not appear, and Guy left the barrier to visit the Konoha Orphanage.

Guy returned to Konoha and visited the renovated orphanage, where he warned a Root operative not to target it. He reunited with Uzumaki Yui and Karin, noticing Karin seemed to recognize him and that Yui was not pregnant.

• Guy returned to the Konoha Orphanage and saw how much it had expanded since he left.
• Guy caught a Root operative watching near the orphanage and warned him to tell Danzo that he would kill him if he targeted it.
• Guy suspected Root was surveilling the orphanage or waiting for an opportunity to exploit the children there.
• Guy approached the orphanage gates with gifts and met Uzumaki Yui and Karin as they hurried outside.
• Guy greeted Uzumaki Yui and wondered whether Karin had sensed him with the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, then noticed Yui was not pregnant.

Guy returned to the orphanage and reunited with Uzumaki Yui, Karin, the children, and his family. He went inside with Might Duy and the others, saying he had things to discuss with them.

• Uzumaki Yui embraced Guy and Karin called him Daddy, leaving him confused and embarrassed.
• Guy entered the orphanage, where the children greeted him excitedly and he handed out candy, snacks, and toys.
• Guy reunited with Kimimaro and Haku, reassuring Kimimaro when he sensed the Six-Tails stir inside him.
• Guy spotted Naruto Uzumaki and Might Nosuke tugging at each other's hair but left them to their harmless tussle.
• Might Duy rushed out and hugged Guy, then Nonō, Ghost Mother, and the other women welcomed him home.
• Guy asked Might Duy and the others to go inside because he had things to discuss with them.

Guy reunited with Might Duy and met his many younger siblings, then checked that Duy’s heart seal remained stable. He learned Duy’s high body temperature had made him unable to father more children and went to speak privately with Nonō about teaching her Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption.

• Guy entered the house and met Maito Marumaru, Maito Gou, Maito Ten, Maito Kyū, and Maito Hachi, whom Might Duy proudly introduced as his children.
• Guy examined Duy and confirmed the Golden Bell Seal and Fire Cloud Kasaya were keeping the Gate of Death’s aura under control.
• Duy asked why his wives had not become pregnant again, and Guy explained that Duy’s high body temperature had likely made him sterile.
• Duy teased Guy that Uzumaki Yui was interested in him and said Guy should carry on the family line.
• Guy called Nonō aside to discuss teaching her Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption while Duy led the children in chanting about youth.

Guy taught Nonō and Uzumaki Yui the Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption and agreed to take Yui with him. He planned to move several children to Spirit Mountain to ease the overcrowded orphanage and reduce the risks posed by its tailed-beast hosts, then joined his family for a meal.

• Guy taught Nonō and Uzumaki Yui the Immortal Exorcism Separation Absorption and planned to leave the Pipa Ritual Instrument with Yui.
• Uzumaki Yui asked to go with Guy, and he agreed to take her after finishing his business.
• Guy decided that Kimimaro and Haku should also leave for Spirit Mountain, while he left decisions about other children for later.
• Nonō agreed to prepare the children, and Guy said he would leave after visiting the Land of Fire Capital.
• Guy joined Might Duy and the children for a family meal at the orphanage.

Guy entered the Land of Fire's capital to find Chiriku and Asuma, but tight security at the Daimyo's Palace led him to sneak inside at night. He reunited with Hyuga Yuma, who revealed that an unknown attacker had tried to assassinate the daimyo half a month earlier.

• Guy arrived in the capital and noticed unusually heavy security around the Daimyo's Palace.
• Guy entered the palace at night and was detected by Hyuga Yuma, who concealed their encounter from a nearby guard.
• Hyuga Yuma brought Guy to a secluded room and explained that he had been stationed at the palace for nearly two years.
• Hyuga Yuma told Guy that an unknown assailant had attempted to kill the daimyo half a month earlier, and Asuma and Chiriku had helped stop the attack.

Guy and Hyuga Yuma suspected Kazuma of plotting against the daimyo and planned to use a shift in the guards’ positions to lure him out. Guy hid in the palace to help protect Asuma and Chiriku, and a late-night explosion signaled that the attack had begun.

• Hyuga Yuma told Guy that the assassin likely knew the palace’s guard rotations and hidden sentry positions, suggesting the attacker was one of their own.
• Guy named Kazuma as a suspect and warned Hyuga Yuma that Kazuma might take extreme measures against the daimyo.
• Hyuga Yuma confirmed that he, Asuma, and Chiriku had also grown suspicious of Kazuma and planned to lure him out by creating an opening in the inner protective ring.
• Guy agreed to remain hidden in the Daimyo's Palace for two days, keeping Asuma and Chiriku unaware of the plan to avoid arousing suspicion.
• Two days later, an explosion struck the palace, and Guy left his hiding place as the attack began.

Guy arrived at the Daimyo's Palace and watched Hefeng, Kazuma, and En Soka confront En Kosei and Asuma in a coup. He realized the conspirators had another source of power: a boy whose chakra felt like the Nine-Tails.

• Guy rushed toward the explosion and discovered that Hefeng was involved alongside Kazuma.
• Guy observed Asuma and Chiriku guarding En Kosei against Hefeng, Kazuma, and the remaining members of the Twelve Guardian Ninja.
• Hefeng accused En Kosei of supporting the Hokage, and En Soka revealed himself as En Kosei's eldest son and the conspirators' candidate to replace him.
• En Soka argued that Konoha had taken too much authority and resources from the daimyo, while Asuma warned him that the coup could not be undone.
• Guy noticed a boy behind Kazuma whose cold, sinister chakra reminded him of the Nine-Tails.

Guy watched as Hefeng and Kazuma's forces launched their coup at the Daimyo's Palace, while Chiriku confronted Hefeng with an advanced Guanyin manifestation. As their battle began, Guy held back and watched Sora, the unstable child carrying Nine-Tails chakra, in case the conflict escalated.

• Guy recognized Sora as Kazuma's son, who had been injected with Nine-Tails chakra and could lose control.
• En Soka ordered an attack, but Hefeng's sabotage destroyed one of the Lightning Release Four-Man Squad's chakra-conducting rods and disabled their strongest technique.
• Hefeng's Guardian Ninja attacked as Asuma clashed with Kazuma, while Hefeng challenged Chiriku to join his plans for the Fire Temple.
• Hefeng summoned a golden Guanyin manifestation, and Chiriku answered with a more powerful form fused with the Great Compassion Thousand-Armed Form.
• Hefeng demanded Chiriku hand over the technique, then attacked with his manifestation; Chiriku met the strike with Welcome Approach: Thousand-Armed Murder.
• Guy stayed hidden to observe the battle and kept watch on Sora, hoping to contain the child without hurting him if necessary.

Hefeng countered Chiriku’s Lion’s Roar Technique with the Great Vacuum Technique, then shattered Chiriku’s Golden Bell Shield and knocked him down. Guy watched from hiding and secretly used his power to affect the injured Chiriku, leaving his eyes blazing with renewed brilliance.

• Chiriku struggled to hold off Hefeng while the other defenders lost ground around the Daimyo’s Palace.
• Chiriku used the Lion’s Roar Technique, but Hefeng sucked the air away with the Great Vacuum Technique and nullified the sound waves.
• Hefeng unleashed Thousand-Armed Murder and broke Chiriku’s Golden Bell Shield, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Hefeng explained that he had developed the vacuum counter after Guy once used the Lion’s Roar to shatter his Sage Clan Talent manifestation.
• Guy watched from hiding, judged Hefeng’s counter insufficient, and secretly affected the injured Chiriku, whose eyes then blazed with brilliance.

Chiriku used a Golden Bell Shield to amplify his Lion's Roar and defeat Hefeng, leaving the traitorous monk gravely wounded in the square. Hefeng acknowledged Chiriku's ingenious loudspeaker-like technique as Chiriku approached him.

• Hefeng offered Chiriku one last chance to join him, but Chiriku refused and vowed that Hefeng would lose.
• Hefeng's blood-red Wrathful Vajra overwhelmed Chiriku's weakened Thousand-Armed Guanyin, forcing Chiriku to retreat.
• Chiriku formed a Golden Bell Shield, broke open its crown, and held it sideways to channel his Lion's Roar.
• Chiriku's amplified roar formed a thirty-meter golden lion that shattered Hefeng's Wrathful Vajra and blasted him into a crater.
• Chiriku approached the badly wounded Hefeng, who marveled that the Lion's Roar could be used like a giant loudspeaker.

Kazuma released Nine-Tails chakra inside his son Sora, who transformed and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at the defenders. A golden dragon claw caught the bomb, threw it into the distance, and subdued Sora, and Might Guy emerged from the shadows.

• After Hefeng lost to Chiriku, Kazuma retreated beside En Soka and asked permission to release their trump card.
• Kazuma used a Sealing Jutsu Formula on Sora, causing the boy to erupt with Nine-Tails chakra and form a three-tailed Chakra Cloak.
• Kazuma ordered Sora to kill the guards and Daimyo En Kosei, while explaining that he planned to blame the Twelve Guardian Ninja for the attack.
• Sora fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, but an enormous golden dragon claw caught it and flung it into the distant sky.
• The golden dragon claw seized Sora and suppressed his Tailed Beast Cloak until he returned to normal and lay peacefully on the ground.
• Might Guy emerged from the shadows at the edge of the square, shocking everyone present.